With his team trailing 14-13 with 1:52 left in the game, Kizer dropped back, kept his composure as the pocket collapsed around him and delivered a perfect ball to Payton for a touchdown — just as he was hit.

Earlier in the fourth quarter, Kizer threw an almost-as-impressive 52-yard bomb to Richard Mullaney where he scrambled, stepped up into the pocket and hit the wide receiver at the 1-yard line. Terrence Magee ran it in from there to make it 14-13.

“I’m sure he’s in the locker room excited, but there are so many other things to clean up,” Jackson said in the postgame press conference. “He probably would tell you it should’ve been two more long balls for big plays. He has to keep growing, but a night like tonight will give him confidence.”

While Browns fans hope Kizer is the franchise quarterback they have waited for, Jackson said hold your horses.

“It’s is way too early to talk about that,” he said. “I need to go watch the tape and all that. Let’s see it for what it was. The guy made some plays at the end that gave us a chance to win. We all know he’s talented, but there are still some things he needs to do better.”

After the game, Kizer said he was excited to go back and watch film.

“We’re going to go back now and watch the film and learn how to watch film in the NFL, against an NFL opponent, and I’m really looking forward to that,” Kizer said after the game.

How do you not like that as a Browns fan?

“Once I can identify the things I’m doing wrong out there,” said Kizer. “I’ve got to go back and make those things my strengths.”

Kizer was the 52nd pick in the draft and the fourth quarterback taken after Mitchell Trubisky (second to the Bears), Patrick Mahomes (10th to the Chiefs) and Deshaun Watson (12th to the Texans).